Battle of Sarmisegetusa

Battle of Sarmisegetusa

Infobox Military Conflict

conflict=Battle of Sarmizegethusa
partof=the Dacian Wars
date= 106
place=Transylvania, Romania
result=Roman victory
combatant2=Roman Empire
The Battle of Sarmisegetusa (also spelled "Sarmizegethusa") was a siege of Sarmizegetusa, the capital of Dacia, fought in 106 between the army of the Roman Emperor Trajan, and the Dacians led by King Decebalus.

Due to the threat the Dacians represented to the Roman Empire's eastward expansion, in the year 101 Emperor Trajan made the decision to begin a campaign against them. The first conflict began on March 25 and the Roman troops, consisting of four principal legions, the units X "Gemina", XI "Claudia", II "Traiana Fortis" and XXX "Ulpia Victrix", defeated the Dacians.

Although the Dacians had sustained a defeat during the First Dacian War, the emperor postponed the final assault on their capital of Sarmizegetusa to reorganize his troops. Trajan demanded severe concessions from the Dacians very hard peace conditions: Decebalus had to renounce all claims to portions of his kingdom, including Banat, Tara Hategului, Oltenia, and Muntenia in the region south-west of Transylvania. He also had to surrender all Roman deserters his troops had captured as well as the Dacian war machines. Upon returning to Rome, Trajan was welcomed as victorious leader, and in honor of his triumph he took the name of "Dacicus", a title that appears on his coinage of this period.

However, during the years 103–105, Decebalus did not respect the peace conditions imposed by Trajan, and in retaliation the Emperor prepared to annihilate the Dacian kingdom and finally conquer Sarmizegetuza. The siege of Sarmizegetuza took place in the summer of the year 106. It is estimated that the Dacians most likely had less than 20,000 men capable of fighting the invasion.

The Roman forces approached Sarmizegetuza in three main columns. The first column crossed the bridge built by Apollodorus of Damascus, and then followed the valleys of rivers Cerna and Timiş up to Tibiscum. They then turned on the valley of the river Bistra, through the Tara Hategului depression. In these places, there were already Roman garrisons stationed from the first war, greatly easing the advance. They passed through Valea Cernei, Hateg, and Valea Streiului and destroyed the Dacian fortresses at Costesti, Blidaru, and Piatra Rosie.

The second column of the army is believed to have crossed the Danube somewhere near ancient Sucidava and then marched northwards on the valley of Jiu, linking with the first Roman column in Tara Hategului.

The combined forces of the two columns then began attacking the area of the Surianu Mountains, meeting sporadic but desperate resistance from the Dacians.

The third Roman column, most likely led by Trajan himself, advanced through eastern Muntenia, crossed the Carpathians at a location close to what is now Bran, and marched westwards through southern Transylvania .

The rest of the troops left from Moesia Inferior and passed through Bran, Bratocea, and Oituz and destroyed the Dacian fortresses between Cumidava (now Rasnov, in Romania) and Angustia (now Bretcu, in Romania). At the battle for the conquest of Sarmizegetuza the following legions participated: II "Adiutirx", IV "Flavia Felix", and a "vexillatio" of VI "Ferrata" which until this war had been stationed in Iudaea.

The Roman forces then enveloped Sarmizegetuza.

Other Roman units are believed to have attacked other Dacian settlements and rally points, as far as the river Tisa to the north, and Moldavia to the east. Dacian settlements in the west, such as Ziridava, were completely destroyed in this period. However, Moldavia and Maramureş, located in modern day northern Romania, were never part of the Roman province of Dacia and would remain free from Roman rule.

The only historical record of the siege is the Trajan's Column, which is a controversial source. There is debate as to whether the Romans did actually fight for Sarmizegetuza, or whether the Dacians destroyed their capital while fleeing ahead of the advancing legions. Most historians agree that a siege of Sarmizegetuza actually took place.

The first assault was repelled by the Dacian defenders. The Romans bombarded the city with their siege weapons and, at the same time, they built a platform to more easily breach the fortress. They also encircled the city with a "circumvallatio" wall.

Finally, the Romans destroyed the water pipes of Sarmizegetuza and obliged the defenders to surrender before they set fire to the city. Roman forces succeeded in entering the Dacian sacred enclosure, hailed Trajan as emperor, and then leveled the whole fortress. IV "Flavia Felix" was stationed there to guard the ruins of Sarmizegetuza. Following the conclusion of the siege, Bicilis, a confidant of Decebalus, betrayed his king, and led the Romans to the Dacian treasure which, according to Jerome Carcopino (p.73), consisted of 165,000 kilograms of pure gold and 331,000 kilograms of silver in the bed of the Sergetia River (Cassius Dio 68.14).

Decebalus and many of his followers escaped the Legions during the siege. They fled east, probably towards the fortification of Ranistorum, the location of which is now lost, only to be caught by the Roman cavalry. Knowing the often brutal treatment of prisoners of war taken by the Romans, Decebalus killed himself to avoid capture.

Decebalus' head and right arm were later presented to Trajan. The Romans reorganized Dacia as a Roman province and built another capitol at a distance of 40 kilometers from the old Sarmizegetuza. This center was named "Colonia Ulpia Traiana Dacica Augusta Sarmizegetuza". The Roman Senate celebrated the founding by ordering the minting of a sestertius dedicated to the "optimus princeps".

Losses sustained in this war by the Dacians were tremendous, but the Roman army also took significant casualties in the conquest of Dacia. The first Dacian rebellion against Roman rule would coincide with the death of Trajan, in 117, showing impact the Emperor had on the Dacians after the war. Even in modern Romanian folklore (Romanians being the descendants of Romanized Dacians), Trajan was remembered as Traian, and his great wars with the "people of the mountains" are still remembered in Romanian epic songs.

* Mihai Manea, Adrian Pascu, and Bogdan Teodorescu, "Istoria romanilor" (Bucharest, 1997), pages 107-122.
* Cassius Dio, Roman History, books 67-68.
* Jerome Carcopino, "Points de vue sur l'ìmpérialisme romain" (Paris, 1924).

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* List of Roman battles

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Mesterlære - en undersøgelse af begrebet mesterlære i en historisk kontekst

Gry Nielsen-Jexen

Studenteropgave: Kandidatprojekt

This thesis seeks to investigate in the historical development of the old concept of apprenticeship in connection with the transformation of Danish vocational education. By analysing the cultural history of the concept of apprenticeship, through the publications on Håndværkets kulturhistorie (the cultural history of the craft) (Degn & Dübeck m.fl. 1981-1984) and Dansk vekseluddannelse i støbeskeen (the molding of danish vocational training) (Sigurjonson 2002) it shows that the concept of apprenticeship within the craft sector, was originated as a tradition in the associations of craftsmen from the Middle age. At this time the concept of apprenticeship consisted of oral assignment of craft-related knowledge and techniques from master to apprentice. My conclusion is that, by the establishment of the concept of apprenticeship, it had a two-dimensional shape: 1) the personal dimension of the master’s influence on the apprentice, through his distinctive artistic expression and creative solutions, as well as his fatherly educational role in the household (to become someone) and 2) the handover of knowledge about craft engineering (to master something). School is a counter-concept for apprenticeship, and I find that especially the introduction of schooling in 1814 has had greatly influenced on the development of the concept of apprenticeship. I find that through the legislation and the reforms of Danish vocational education, through time, the concept apprenticeship has gone from its original two-dimensional form to contain only to second dimension to master something. By discussing my recitals with some of Klaus Nielsen and Steinar Kvales' sights in the book Mesterlære – læring som social praksis (The concept of Apprenticeship - learning as social practice) (1999) and the analysis done by Steen Wackerhausen in the article Det skolastiske paradigme og mesterlære (the scholastic paradigm and apprenticeship) (1999) I come to the conclusion that, whilst Nielsen and Kvale calls the concept of apprenticeship “outdated” and Wackerhausen believe that it is in “decline”, I find that by the influence of the concept of school, which has removed the dimension of becoming someone, the concept of apprenticeship contains now only the second dimension to master something. That means that the concept of Apprenticeship is neither outdated or declined, it has simply become something else.

UddannelserPædagogik og Uddannelsesstudier, (Bachelor/kandidatuddannelse) Kandidat
Udgivelsesdato19 dec. 2018
Antal sider30
VejledereSøs Anne-Lise Bayer

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Academic Year 2000/2001
Co-ordinator Dr Mark Ratcliffe
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Pre-Requisite MA13310 , CS15410
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Assessment Exam   2 Hours   100%
  Supplementary examination   Will take the same form, under the terms of the Department's policy.

General description
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Ronald J. Tocci and Frank J. Ambrosio. (2000) Micorprocessors and Microcomputers: Hardware and Software. Prentice-Hall 0-13-010494-9
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“The Cluster is 16.5 million parsecs away, and yet its gravity still pulls our local group toward it.

“Within the Virgo Cluster, its immense gravitational pull pushes galaxies to near-relativistic speeds, blasting away their free hydrogen, and leaving them bereft of new stars.

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The Virgo Cluster (Image: NASA)

“Imagine, an entire galaxy, slowly dying, unable to renew, simply because of where it is.”

However, before all of this, the Milky Way is going to collide with Andromeda – the nearest galaxy to ours and one that is 220,000 light-years across, twice the size of the Milky Way – just to really make sure life cannot survive.

Andromeda is approaching the Milky Way at around five million kilometres a year meaning that “in about three billion years, Andromeda will collide with ours, according to Geraint Lewis, an Astrophysicist at the University of Sydney.

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Andromeda will one day consume the Milky Way (Image: GETTY)

Mr Lewis continued: “The collision will shake-up the Milky Way and it will be lit up like a Christmas Tree as new stars are created.

“The gas available in this collision gets used up very quickly. New stars will form and die. The gas will be swallowed up by a supermassive black hole.”


WhatsApp told govt about Pegasus spyware 2nd time in September, said 121 people spied on: Reports

Responding to a notice by the IT ministry on the WhatsApp spying issue, the Facebook-owned company attached both the vulnerability notes it filed in May as well as the letter it sent to the government in September.

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After the government claimed that instant messaging application WhatsApp had not informed government agencies about a privacy breach targetting many Indian activists, lawyers and journalists, the messaging platforms has now responded by saying that it had alerted the government on two occasions -- once in May and for the second time in September.

While the government has now confirmed that it did receive the September intimation from WhatsApp informing about spyware called Pegasus targetting 121 Indians, the IT ministry claimed the letter was "still too vague" to be alarming, as reported by the Indian Express.

WhatsApp's response came in the wake of the Government claiming that they were not informed about the possible breach of privacy by the company in their last two meetings.

Elaborating on how "vague" the letter was, a source in the IT minister told the Indian Express, "The letter says that it appears that some 121 people may have been affected but doesn't specifically say what the impact was. It doesn't tell who, what, where the identities which have now come out in the media. They have been trying to reach out to (those affected) through a Canadian group. Nowhere has the Indian government been involved."

"The government took up the issue of traceability with their international vice-president (Nick Clegg) and CEO (Chris Daniels) during formal structured meetings at the highest level of the ministry. They objected to it, suggesting their platform was safe. Not for once did they inform us about this privacy breach during those meetings at the highest levels," he added.

Another source told Indian Express that WhatsApp kept them the Indian Government in the loop on all the developments in the matter.

Govt claims WhatsApp shared technical jargon

In a statement on Friday, Facebook-owned WhatsApp said it agreed with the demand made by the Indian government to explain the kind of breach to safeguard the privacy of millions of citizens. It also claimed to have informed the Indian government about the 'security issue' in May.

"Our highest priority is the privacy and security of WhatsApp users. In May, we resolved a security issue and notified relevant Indian and international government authorities," the WhatsApp statement said.

But the government countered the WhatsApp's claims saying the information provided was "pure technical jargon".

Government sources said WhatsApp had given information to CERT-IN, a government agency, in May, but without any mention of Pegasus or the extent of the breach.

It also insisted that the information shared was only about a technical vulnerability and had nothing to do with the fact that the privacy of Indian users had been compromised. To back its claim, a screenshot of the information shared with CERT-IN by WhatsApp was circulated by government sources. However, the link on information relayed by WhatsApp in May has disappeared from the CERT-IN website.

Spying snowballs into political controversy

WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned mobile messaging service in October-end informed a few Indian journalists and human rights activists that they were among the 1,400 people globally who were spied upon by unnamed entities using Israeli spyware dubbed Pegasus.

Pegasus allegedly exploited WhatsApp's video calling system by installing the spyware via missed calls to snoop on 1,400 select users globally, including nearly 30-40 in India.

The owner of Pegasus, Israel-based NSO Group, limits the sale of the spyware to state intelligence agencies and others as it has the ability to collect intimate data from a target device. Pegasus software can be installed on devices as "exploit links".

The Indian government has denied purchasing or plans to buy Pegasus software from NSO Group.

The government has also come under fire from journalists as they demanded clarification from WhatsApp and questioned why it had kept the information about spying on Indian citizens hidden from the authorities despite recent meetings with the company CEO.

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The longest road in Spain

8 September 2014

With just over half a million square kilometers, Spain is the fourth largest country in Europe. Along with the mountainous terrain, communication between different places in Spain has been a clear challenge for engineers. The N340 is a great example of engineering as it is the longest road in Spain and probably one of the most traveled during summer.

This road joins Cádiz with Barcelona, passing Malaga, over a distance of 1.248 km. and spans ten provinces belonging to four different autonomous communities. Its origins can be found in the so called Via Augusta that ran from the Pyrenees. During Roman occupation, this road was an important hub of business and communications that has survived through to our days.

During the decade of the 1920’s, in the time of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship, the government started the so called National Circuit of Special Pavements, a program which tried to fix the deteriorating road network in Spain, paving some stretches of the Roman road. However, it wasn't till the decades of the 50’s and 60’s when the road was finally finished. The tourist business developing in some towns and migration movement from the country to the city were keys for its expansion, being the road traveled by thousands of families who, during the summer months left Cataluña to return to their hometowns, many in Andalucia.

This road’s nomenclature is based on the method of numbering the roads in Spain. So the first digit is assigned by the area between the N-III and N-IV highways, the second is the distance in kilometers from Madrid (more than 400 km. in this case) and the third is due to its traversal nature, with it not being a radial road.

N-340 starts in Cadiz at the junction with the A-4 highway. The first section is called A-48 until it reaches Vejer de la Frontera. In its 1.248 kilometers it goes through towns like Conil, Marbella, Malaga, El Ejido, Murcia, Elche, Alicante, Valencia, Castellón or Tarragona, until it reaches Avenida del Parallel in Barcelona.

Studies indicate that this is one of the roads with the highest accident rates in the country. Therefore, in recent years the new A7 motorway is being built next to it. The new motorway will eventually be 1.330 km. long even though there are still 320 km. left to build, mainly between Castellón and Barcelona. When it is completely finished, it will hold the record that is now held by the old road. In spite of it, the old N-340 will remain the axis that runs through the Mediterranean coast and it will remain in our memory as the road that we had to travel during those long car trips to the seaside.


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Seizures are rare while dreaming in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. New research, however, suggests seizures may rebound during unstable REM sleep. This may be due to brain wiring (connectivity) since a highly connected brain is more prone to seizures, and connectivity changes from wakefulness to sleep. Brainwave tracings (EEG) can generate connectivity maps (connectomes) but adequate connectome resolution requires many EEG electrodes (high density EEG). This study uses high density EEG to examine brain connectomes and seizure susceptibility in unstable REM sleep.

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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), also known as glioblastoma and grade IV astrocytoma, is the most common and most aggressive cancer that begins within the brain. There is no clear way to prevent the disease. Typically treatment involves surgery after which chemotherapy and radiation therapy is used. The medication Temozolomide (TMZ) is frequently used as part of chemotherapy. Cholesterol lowering drugs (statins) is recently being considered as a novel and safe approach for combination therapies in many cancers.

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The proposed study will develop seismic design guidelines for retrofitting deficient concrete bridge columns with sprayed fiber reinforced plastic (FRP). Seismically deficient bridge columns (with different aspect ratios and transverse reinforcement ratios) retrofitted with composites will be tested under reverse cyclic loading. The tests will determine various damage states in terms of strain and drift.

The Semaphorins, a role Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

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Adrien Guadagnino -August 24, 2018

Adrien Guadagnino was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While studying acting at Columbia College Chicago, they found themselves increasingly interested in visual arts. Their work is rooted in storytelling and uses a number of different mediums to create an immersive environment.

"The flag honors Grandad’s Bluff, Formed about 11,700 years ago, and located in La Crosse Wisconsin. When you drive to La Crosse from Milwaukee, WI, parts of Grandad’s Bluff hint at your arrival, and once you see a flag, you know you have arrived. La Crosse is where my mother grew up and a place visited at least once a summer. Banana, cinnamon, and Grape Nut ice cream were the most prominent flavors of the summer and will be served at the flag raising ceremony."


ACM Europe Council Best Paper Award to the Politecnico di Milano

An analysis of deep learning algorithms applied to recommender systems by Ferrari Dacrema and Cremonesi

Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, an Information Technology PhD student, and Prof. Paolo Cremonesi, from the Architecture Research Team of the Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering Department, won the ACM Europe Council Best Paper Awardat the 13th ACM Recommender Systems conference.

The article "Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches" provides a systematic analysis of the deep learning algorithms applied to recommender systems, published at high level conferences in recent years.

The article identifies 18 significant publications, stating that only 7 contain results that can be reproduced, and 6 of them were found to be non-competitive compared to much more specific non-neural techniques.

Overall, the article highlights various potential problems with the use of machine learning, and maintains that experimental practices need to be improved in this sector.

The ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys) conference is the leading international forum for presenting new research results, systems, and techniques in the recommender system field.

Recommender systems are information filtering systems intended for users, in order to facilitate browsing of vast catalogues of information, products and news, now available in the information and e-commerce era. Suggestions used by the user are personalised based on past interactions with the system, their preferences, and other personal information.

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Technology refers to the collection of tools that make it easier to use, create, manage and exchange information. At the beginning of time, human beings made use of it for the process of world discovery and evolution. Technology is the knowledge and use of tools, techniques, and systems in order to serve a larger purpose such as problem-solving or making life easier and better. Its importance for human beings is enormous because it has helped them adapt to the environment.

The development of high technology has helped to overcome communication barriers and reduce the gap between people around the world. The faraway places have become closer each time and as a result, the pace of life has increased. Things that used to take hours to complete can be done in a matter of seconds today. The world is smaller and life is much faster. To engage with the latest technology join this forum in technology Englisch.

An integral part of our lives

Technological advances have become an essential part of our lives. To understand why, just look around and see that at all times and context we are surrounded by it; Whether we are working or resting, it is always present to make our lives easier.

Due to its application, our standard of living has improved, as the needs are met more easily. In general, all industries benefit from it, be it medicine, tourism, education, entertainment among many others. In addition, companies have grown and become more efficient, helping to create new employment opportunities. The application of technology has driven research in fields ranging from genetics to extraterrestrial space.

The importance of technology is almost always linked to the practical uses it has

In fact, a very expensive technology, or very complicated, does not usually succeed, because its implementation is very complicated. That is why sometimes technologies that seem rudimentary triumph over much more 'modern' ones. Be that as it may, technology is usually in continuous progress, being, in general, the practical development of new ideas conceived by scientific disciplines, and therefore, is closely linked to the concept of innovation.

In the life of modern society, technology is indispensable. In fact, most scientific efforts focus on the creation of new technologies that meet the needs of society and raise the level of well-being. That on paper, because technology is not always used for the intended purpose nor is it designed to improve human life (there are important exceptions, such as war technologies), but technology always covers a need. The technology is not necessarily necessary, and therefore will not be used.

Linked to the great needs of humanity, technologies of great value have always appeared. For the need for human communication, the telephone, television, radio, the internet ... With the health needs, advances in surgery, general medicine, clinical analysis ... with the economic needs have emerged new industrial technologies, process technologies, Extraction .. And so we could continue to infinity, because there is no area in which technology is not present: be it in the economic, industrial, social, political, scientific, legislative, educational ... etc, as it allows an improvement of the final result or a simplification of the intermediate processes.

Consequences of misuse

Modern technology has become an important facet of our lives and without it the world would be radically different. Despite this, social inequalities mean that there are still many people who do not have access to it.

On the other hand, the rapid development of new devices encourages consumerism, and excessive use brings with it health effects, such as visual stress, insomnia, deafness or obesity, among others. Finally, spending so much time browsing our cell phones and tablets disconnects us from what is happening around us and affects our relationship with others.

The use of technology is immeasurable and will continue to change, based on the demands of the people and the market. How we use it determines whether it is good or bad, useful or harmful. The technology itself is neutral, but it is we who make it good or bad, based on the use we give it.

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The Chronicles of Stevens Computer Science

It is simple to slip through the cracks for a PhD, and you need to start it only when you experience an advisor lined up. So it’s very important to go for a branch that’s of your interest. Whether any funding goes to CS is dependent on the caliber of grant applications that have a CS component.

The Argument About Stevens Computer Science

In the majority of situations, you don’t require that. There are many solutions, here’s a good one. Most problems can be solved in several ways, and markup html tags and formatting it’s vital for students to be in a position to spell out the methods they used for the solution.

In the end, the student’s success in the business comes down to their set of tools and techniques in various regions of technology. You’re a sensible business man. If you’re in a science or engineering curriculum, then there are particular things that are critical for the student to understand, like a superb foundation is mathematics and physics.

Zero to One is about doing the perfect things. Google their name and you’re bound to find their whole achievement gallery shining bright.

The actual question came with whether to utilize GitHub. New threads might be made by the programmer. As it happens, there are plenty of resources on it, too.

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There’s a relation between two things if there’s some connection between them. Put simply, a God-like observer with perfect understanding of the brain wouldn’t consider it non-computable. In reality, there are a couple of ways, and a great deal of them come up repeatedly in computer science.

In mathematics, the thought of non-computability isn’t observer-dependent so that it seems something of a stretch to introduce it like an explanation. Small things are less difficult to understand and build. Machine learning is at the crux of our journey towards artificial general intelligence, and meanwhile, it is going to change every business and have a substantial effect on our day-to-day lives.

A far better idea is to simply retrain present workers to do something totally different. As a consequence, every residence is one-of-a-kind. From the huge room, kids can’t observe the interior of the little room.

The writers will revolve around the overview and the background, and not concentrate on the correctness or the minute particulars of the paper. As soon as it’s perfectly fine if students decide to locate solutions online, they ought to probably use the code as a final resort or a check instead of jumping to such resources as a very first impulse. On these days, everybody could observe various department students are working in the manner of a software engineer.

The procedure is eliminated from the front part of the queue whenever the CPU becomes available. As a programmer you’re bound to face errors and exceptions. Given the example The very first relation, number 1, has a distinctive name.

It is not hard to become enamoured with the newest trend or tool, and the more elaborate models might not be the absolute most appropriate for each application. The range of paths which lead into and from a vertex is known as the level of a vertex. You will need to know some mathematical concepts from several diverse areas if you would like to excel at algorithms.


Let it Be

Dear Ones,

Even though you crossed the Rubicon to 5D, you continue to feel the need to care for others – either personal relationships or global interactions.

But you now have different areas to discover and explore. Your time caretaking the earth, your friends, family, and community members – even those of the ethers – is over.

Dissipating your inner-power through caretaking is counter-productive. For there are enough humans now following you to take up the banner of personal and global rights and freedoms. Such is no longer your area of concern – or expertise.

For those following, you have a different agenda than is true for those of you at the forefront.

It is no longer your concern that those following rebuild earth as you feel appropriate. For you are of a different age both chronologically and spiritually. That which you think important might have little to do with those who follow. Just as is true for different earth generations.

Did many of your parents not believe that the freedoms you proclaimed in the 1960’s and 1970’s outrageous and counterproductive? So it is now. Do not concern yourself with how earth love evolves, for you are at a different place in a different time.

You probably believe that if those following relied on your dictates of how it should be, the earth would quickly shift to joy. But you are now of the ethers as much as of earth. So you sense a broader range of possibilities than is true for those still in the earth trenches.

Your vision is more like those of us in the ethers than of those of the earth. So it is that many of those following you must experience a bit of pain before they realize their true power, just as was true for you.

And just as was true for those of us of the ethers, you cannot remove their pain with a few creations here and there. Those yet fully of the earth must realize their self-love before they dare rise up in protest.

Many of you reading this message might be in fear – thinking that the earth love and joy you so desire is a never-arriving miracle. Such is not so. For you created the path that those following will discover much more rapidly than was true for you. And once those following you create their path of love and joy, others will create their path in even less time – and on and on.

So it is you must believe that all is wonderfully well on earth even if it does not appear as such most days. The earth chaos and upheaval are designed to awaken those who have not yet discovered their inner-power – or their need to find beliefs beyond earth.

Those who follow you will carry your earth baton as you move to other pieces of your being that have more to do with personal exploration than caretaking earth.

Even though some of you remain totally enmeshed in the current earth chaos, such will change shortly. Not because you do not have earth power, but because the call to discover new you will be stronger than the need to caretake earth or any entity.

This time is confusing in many ways, not the least of which is that there are many Universal/earth patterns competing for your attention. None of those patterns are incorrect, merely not necessarily where you wish to focus. That is the crux of the issue we are discussing.

You are evolving from caretaking others and earth, to discovering your new being with your new powers. Powers that are beyond what you expected. Your joy will be or is in discovering new you instead of caretaking earth and others as you have done for eons.

Perhaps that concept seems unloving, but it is little different from what you experienced throughout your earth lives. When you are an infant, exploration of your environment and learning to walk and talk are your key interests. As a teen, it is discovering complex relationships and adjusting to your new body. A young adult is concerned about child rearing, food, shelter, and work which eventually evolves to retirement issues.

At each life stage, you have different interests and expect that your interests are also the priority of others in your age range. You know that those younger or at a different stage will caretake or evolve those pieces that no longer interest you. So it is now.

You are at a different stage from those following you. Allow them to find their way, just as we encouraged you to do so. You created your path. Now trust that those following will create a path that is right for them as will be true for all who follow them.

Let go and let be.

Just as you are not exactly like those of us of the ethers – you are an original being with new interests and talents because you have had different experiences than us.

Perhaps you remember with laughter, the fear most of your parents expressed as you put on your tie-dyed blue jeans and protested just about everything their society held dear. The earth did not fall apart, it merely evolved into something that many of you are trying to maintain just as your parents and grandparents did at one time.

Universal life is change. And the change most of you are now adapting to is that you are of the earth, but in a new body with new powers and new directions. Allow that to be as you become more of new you with the knowledge that the earth of old is shifting and changing as rapidly as you are due in large part to your efforts.

So it is change continues. Change that will create the new earth of love and joy you have long pined for. And your current role in this shift is to follow your joy. So be it. Amen.

Heartfelt courage 28th June 2017 11:31 pm

I needed this today and yesterday. It reminds me of a story a family member loved telling. She loved to feed me in the high chair and I would always tell her, I can feed myself, but mom needs help with the dishes! She would tell my sisters, "The hot water will help your cramps." I guess I knew she hated dishes, but loved cooking! I was 10 and 13 years behind them.
Love of life to all!

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Post by brian.savage » Fri Jan 11, 2019 3:42 pm

In Flight Tasking – IFT

How often have you set yourself a task which you believe will make for a great flight, and as you approach the first waypoint you are disappointed?

One of two things has happened:
  • The waypoint is covered in low cloud which has advanced further than the forecast predicted and is unreachable, so the task must be abandoned.
  • The waypoint is in beautiful clear air with a nice puffy thermal cloud over it, and you can see the energy line stretching far beyond: Should you make the turn and abandon that great energy line? Or should you abandon the task and fly into the distance? A difficult decision to make!
Disappointing and discouraging either way.

In Flight Tasking – IFT – is a new technique we have introduced into taskPilot to try and overcome this issue.

Put simply, it is a scoreable flight where you develop the task as you fly it!

There are a few wrinkles we have introduced to make it challenging, but that is the basic description.

By flying an IFT task, pilots will need to perform basic pre flight planning based on the weather forecast, and continue to plan throughout their flight as the weather evolves.

Importantly, every flight should be able to be scored. Previously an abandoned task could only be posted as an unscored free flight.

How it works

You fly a start, finish and up to 3 turnpoint task using your club’s waypoints. To make it challenging, the flight must visit waypoints in sectors around the start point as described below.

The first sector is determined from the first turnpoint you fly to. For example, you believe North is a good way to start, so you fly generally towards wp8 and wp9. On the way you collect wp4, wp7 and wp5.

Attempting to reach wp8, you decide you can go no further and choose wp5 as your first turnpoint. This choice sets the first sector, which is defined by a line perpendicular to the Start-wp5 line, drawn through the start waypoint, as follows:

To claim another turnpoint you must fly across this line, so wp6, wp2 etc are not selectable.

Flying southwards you collect a few waypoints along the way - wp11, wp10 and wp13 – until you reach your limit and choose wp13 as your second turnpoint.

Selecting Wp13 as the turnpoint determines the second sector, drawn as before through the Start, and now available waypoints are only those in the remaining space between sector 1 and sector 2, shaded in green.

Collecting wp18 you fly to the finish, in this case the same waypoint as the start, completing the task as shown.

This flight can now be loaded into taskPilot and scored as a racing flight using the IFT flight upload option.

As part of the upload you enter the turnpoints to construct the task and they are checked against the sector rules.

If your task fails to meet the sector rules you can change the task turnpoints, hence ‘collecting’ waypoints along the way as a safety measure is a good idea.

If you had failed to make wp18, and didn’t collect any waypoints in the final sector, you could still claim a 2 turnpoint triangle task flight. Indeed, if you only collect one waypoint on the entire flight, you can still claim an out and back flight to that turnpoint.

The start and finish don’t have to be the same point, so after the flight, you might be able to construct a higher scoring flight by moving the start or finish points to one of the waypoints you collected.

The future for IFT

IFT is very new and only a simple version has been created so far, using trial and error will determine what is best to do next.

For example, the height penalty isn’t used – this will be introduced as that makes the Start waypoint selection important. Some ‘off tow’ detection might also be introduced.

Bonus points could be awarded for each extra turnpoint, for example 1 waypoint – out and back – gets no bonus, a triangle 2 turnpoint gets +10% and a quad 3 turnpoint gets +20%.

Work is underway to integrate IFT flights into contests and the club league.

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Spatially-Engineered Janus Hybrid Nanozyme Toward SERS Liquid Biopsy at Nano/Micro Scales.

著者 Su Y , Zhang Q , Miao X , Wen S , Yu S , Chu Y , Lu X , Jiang LP , Zhu JJ
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces.2019 Oct 17 ; ():.

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Nanomaterials with intrinsic enzyme-mimicking properties (nanozymes), have been widely considered as artificial enzymes in biomedicine. However, manipulating inorganic nanozyme into multivariant targeted bio-analysis is still challenging because of the insufficient catalytic efficiency and biological blocking effect. Here, we rationally designed a spatially-engineered hollow Janus hybrid nanozyme vector (h-JHNzyme) based on the bifacial modulation of Ag-Au nanocage. The silver face inside the h-JHNzyme serves as an interior gate to promote the enzymatic activity of the Ag-Au nanozyme, while two-dimensional DNAzyme-motif nanobrushes deposited on the exterior surface of the h-JHNzyme endowed the targeting function and tremendously enhanced the peroxidase-mimicking activity. We demonstrated that the spatially-separated modulation of the h-JHNzyme propels it as powerful "all-in-one" enzymatic vector with excellent biocompatibility, specific vectorization, remarkable enzymatic performance and clinical practicability. Further, we programmed it into a stringent catalytic SERS liquid biopsy platform to trace multidimensional tumour-related biomarkers, such as microRNAs and circulating tumour cells, with a limit of detection of fM and single cell level, respectively. The developed enzymatic platform shows great potential to facilitate the reliable quantitative SERS liquid biopsy for on-demand clinical diagnosis.
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